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Recent Blog Entries
1	Blind Monkeys Everywhere There are things you expect from big companies, like Google for example. You expect some level of talent. You expect scalability. You expect (now that it's so big) some level of treachery. But sheer incompetence? Well, I didn't. I should have known ...	Aug 25, 2022
2	Remote real time computer monitoring Conkw is a new project I've been working on for a few month. It stands for web-based Conky. Just like Conky, it is aimed at hobbyists that want a small dashboard where their most essential data is displayed. CPU, temperature, fan speeds, but also the ...	Jul 26, 2021
3	Migration of Arbitrage from Windows to Mesos Note: Arbitrage is a "big" application in our ecosystem. Read further to see how big. This article is the last piece of our series about migrating apps at scale from .net (so, on Windows) to .netCore, on Mesos. It recaps the whole process: ...	Sep 7, 2020
4	Apple is so great Apple invented the personal computer with the Apple II, igniting the personal computer revolution. Apple is unique in that regard. Apple made the mouse ubiquitous and popular, as well as the GUI. That's goundbreaking. Apple changed twice of CPU ...	Apr 24, 2020
5	Devoxx 2018 A bit late, but better late then never, right? Here is my talk at devoxx 2018:	Jan 8, 2019
6	The importance of signal / noise ratio, or how Facebook is shooting itself in the foot. I subscribed to Facebook in January 2008. It was the trendy thing to do, and I found it quite useful. It brought a new type of connection with my friends. I had friends abroad with which keeping in touch was a bit challenging. We could now interact ...	Oct 15, 2018
7	Tired of so many notifications ... I'm not going to rehash it all, Beth Skwarecki said it perfectly, with practical tips and tricks: https://lifehacker.c...	Sep 28, 2018
8	Pure madness The other day I was waiting on a disqus blog to start up, loading the comments section. I have a 20MB/s ADSL line. I can download at 1.8 Mega Bytes per second without any issue. The browser was spinning for so long that I decided to hit F12 in Firefox ...	Mar 27, 2017
9	Is it lunch yet? I get it, you're hungry. Because luch time can never be too soon, I've designed this webpage: http://isitlunchyet....	Jul 30, 2016
10	Garbage Collectors are awesome (until they bite back) It's all in there: http://labs.criteo.c...	Jun 1, 2016
11	JPEG Compression: Is 80 the magic quality - Part 1 - the retina screens Foreword - encoding JPEGs How do you encode your JPEGs ? Let's take a concrete example. You you have a 150x150 image. You want to compress it in JPG, but which quality settings should you use? JPEG encoders usually take a quality setting as a parameter, ...	May 1, 2016